Sponsors

Biometrics 2008 would like to acknowledge the support of the following sponsors. All external links will open in a new window.

Main Sponsor

An industry leader in systems integration and global security, Lockheed Martin's expertise in credentialing and identity management is seen on multiple programmes - from Registered Traveller, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, the Transportation Worker Identification Credential and the recently awarded Next Generation Identification system.

Contact:
Duncan Croll, Marketing Director
Lockheed Martin Transportation & Security Solutions
Tel: +44(0)1252 553300
E-mail: duncan.croll@lmco.com 
Web: www.lockheedmartin.co.uk (link opens in a new window)

Supporting Partners

Biometrics Institute | Financial Services Technology Consortium | GlobalPlatform | Intellect | ITSO | Silicon Trust | Teletrust BV

The Biometrics Institute is an independent not-for-profit membership organisation, founded in 2001 with funding from the Australian government. Its mission is to be a forum for biometric users and other interested parties and to facilitate the responsible use of biometrics. It has over 120 member organisations in the public and private sector from Australia, New Zealand, Europe, USA and Asia/Pacific. It offers biometric vulnerability and privacy impact assessments in addition to other member services.

For further information contact: manager@biometricsinstitute.org
www.biometricsinstitute.org

The Financial Services Technology Consortium sponsors noncompetitive collaborative research and development of interbank technical projects affecting the entire financial services industry. Our mission is to help our members collaborate on technical and business aspects of technologies so that they may rapidly bring innovations in service and quality closer to the marketplace and to their customers, while competing upon a bedrock of sound, shared technology fundamentals.

For further information visit: www.fstc.org

Driven by its member organizations, with cross industry representation from all world continents, GlobalPlatform is the worldwide leader in smart card infrastructure development.  Its proven and interoperable technical specifications for cards, devices and systems are known as the standard for smart card infrastructure thanks to their balance of technical superiority and business justification.  GlobalPlatform Specifications are freely available and have been adopted in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas by many public and private bodies.  As an independent, not-for-profit organization, GlobalPlatform's strategy is defined and prioritized by a member elected Board of Directors.

www.globalplatform.org

Intellect is the trade association for the UK technology industry.

Intellect provides a collective voice for its members and drives connections with government and business to create a commercial environment in which they can thrive. Intellect represents over 800 companies ranging from SMEs to multinationals. As the central hub for this networked community, Intellect is able to draw upon a wealth of experience and expertise to ensure that its members are best placed to tackle challenges now and in the future.

For further information visit www.intellectuk.org

Information on this partner will be added to the site shortly. You can find out more at www.itso.org.uk

A group of like-minded companies and organisations dedicated to stimulating the understanding, adoption, use and widespread acceptance of silicon-based security solutions in a variety of applications.

For further information, please contact: operations.secretariat@silicon-trust.com

www.silicon-trust.com

TeleTrusT Germany
TeleTrusT Germany, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to establishing trustworthy and reliable framework conditions for the application of information and communication technology. Founded eighteen years ago, TeleTrusT Germany developed into a widely known and acknowledged competency network for the issues of IT security in Germany and Europe. Today, TeleTrusT Germany represents over eighty-five member organizations from the industry, science and research sectors, as well as public authorities. Members have the opportunity to engage in a multitude of interesting theme and project working groups addressing current issues of IT security and security management. TeleTrusT operates the European Bridge CA project which meanwhile has issued 700.000 public key certificates to affiliated participants for secure e-mail communication over the internet.  TeleTrusT initiated the T.I.S.P. certificate which provides IT security specialists with certification of their expertise.

For further information contact:
Dr. Günther Welsch, Managing Director
Tel:  + 49 30 / 400 54 310 | Fax: + 49 30 / 400 54 311
E-Mail: welsch@teletrust.de

www.teletrust.de